London Fireworks.
On the 23 August 1584, Lupold von Wedel noted down a show he witnessed during his visit to London as follows:
"The next was that a number of men and women came forward from a separate compartment, dancing, conversing and fighting with each other: also a man who threw some white bread among the crowd, that scrambled for it. Right over the middle of the place a rose was fixed, this rose being set on fire by a rocket: suddenly lots of apples and pears fell out of it down upon the people standing below. Whilst the people were scrambling for the apples, some rockets were made to fall down upon them out of the rose, which caused a great fright but amused the spectators. After this, rockets and other fireworks came flying out of all corners, and that was the end of the play."
(Lupold von Wedel on bearbaiting, 23 August 1584, from E. Chambers, ES 2, 455; trans. G. von Bulow in 2 Transactions of Royal Hist. Soc. ix. 230, from MS in possession of Graf von der Osten at Plathe, Pomerania.)
What event was he supposedly attending?
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